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Providing a recovery placeholder within an application

a technology of recovery placeholder and application, applied in the field of providing a recovery placeholder within an application, can solve problems such as reducing user experien

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-05-24
KYNDRYL INC
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Enables seamless restoration of application state, maintaining user experience by accurately recalling the application's position and activity, even after window changes, such as movement or minimization.

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However, moving on to another topic or application that has taken away the user's attention, and then attempting to return to the previous application looking for where the user has left off, is inefficient and leads to a decreased user experience.

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[0018]Exemplary embodiments now will be described more fully herein with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments are shown. It will be appreciated that this disclosure may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the exemplary embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these exemplary embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of this disclosure to those skilled in the art.

[0019]Furthermore, the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of this disclosure. As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an”, and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Furthermore, the use of the terms “a”, “an”, etc., do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one of the referenced items. It will be...

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Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide recovery placeholders within an application. Specifically, one approach includes providing an application operating on a client device, and generating a recovery placeholder that defines a current state of the application by analyzing a queue containing a set of messages, and identifying one or more selected events corresponding to the application from the queue. In one approach, the current state defines, at the time the recovery placeholder is generated, at least one of: a position within a window of the application, a current activity of the application, a position of the window within a display of a display device, and a placement order of the window of the application in relation to a stack of other cascaded windows. At a later point in time, the application may then be restored to the current state by accessing the recovery placeholder to replay the one or more selected events.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]This invention relates generally to graphical interface and application state recovery and, more specifically, to providing a recovery placeholder within an application to facilitate application state recovery.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]When working in multiple applications and tools throughout the day, users often jump from application to application, sometimes mid-thought or mid-activity. It is common that users find themselves stopping in the middle of reading a web page, document, spreadsheet, etc. However, moving on to another topic or application that has taken away the user's attention, and then attempting to return to the previous application looking for where the user has left off, is inefficient and leads to a decreased user experience.[0005]The use of a bookmark to mark where the user was previously reading is known in the art. In one approach, a bookmarking device has a marking membrane on a panel member fo...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/00G06F9/46G06F9/44G06F13/00G06F11/14G06F9/54
CPCG06F9/542G06F11/1469G06F11/1438G06F9/461G06F9/546G06F2209/548G06F40/103G06F3/0481G06T1/60G06T2200/24
Inventor CHAVEZ, LISA M.CHILDRESS, RHONDA L.KUMHYR, DAVID B.SPISAK, MICHAEL J.
Owner KYNDRYL INC